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Double Trouble
Only
a week after finishing her recent stint on Galactica, Lawless took to the
stage to compete in Fox TV's star-studded charity sing-off Celebrity Duets.
It was a total departure from anything she had ever done before and one that
has forever changed her life. "I was working up in Vancouver when a friend
of mine's singing teacher called me and said, 'My friend at Fox just called
me and said the network has been trying to get you on this new show called
Celebrity Duets but your reps keep turning them down, They say you won't do
reality TV.'
"My reps were telling the truth, but this time I made an exception and said,
'Are you kidding me? I definitely want to do it.' Subsequently, I had to
turn around and fight a lot of people and say you know what? I as a Human
being need to do this. Forget career move, forget how you think other people
are going to perceive me. I cannot go to my deathbed knowing that I
chickened out of an opportunity to sing with Smokey Robinson, which I did
four times," enthuses Lawless.
"I have to tell you that performing on stage like that was such a drug, and
since then I've been craving it. Something crazy happened to me, especially
on the last night of the show, and I can't think about anything else. When i
sang Tell Mama it was like, 'I've only just begun. I'm done being
underestimated and this Mama is coming out of the kitchen,'" chuckles the
actress.
"I'm so proud of what I did because it was something I did entirely on my
own. Again, I had to fight for it, but it was worth it. I feel like I'm
moving into a new phase of my life now and it's thrilling."
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Unto Herself. Lucy Lawless Makes Life Hard For The Crew of Galactica
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